The secrets of Dark Souls lore explained and explored

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"No matter how tender, how exquisite, a lie will remain a lie." - Lord Aldia
Karl Popper wrote a short-but-sweet essay called "The Conspiracy Theory of Society," in which he pours scorn on various ideas about one group or the other secretly running the world. The piece suggests this apparently-modern worldview can be traced back to Homer, "who conceived the power of the gods in such a way that whatever happened on the plain before Troy was only a reflection of the various conspiracies on Olympus." The squabbling of the gods, their alliances and contests, both give meaning to and excuse the actions of humans.
A key influence on Dark Souls is western mythology, most obviously the visual parallel between Gwyn and Zeus, ranging from the classical pantheons of Greece and Rome to Anglo-Saxon, Welsh and Norse equivalents. This roots Dark Souls' lore in aspects of historic mythology to an end far greater than mere reference - the creation and use of mythology is a key theme in Lordran, and real world examples act as the comparison point for how this happens. And in using such threads to construct its world, Dark Souls crafts a web of conspiracy theories.
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